Damp Proofing

Mould on clothing but not the walls

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.02 PM

Hi, I'm renting a terraced house. It's a 3 bed with the third bedroom being an attic conversion. My partner and I decided that we would use this room as our walk in wardrobe room as it had a built in wardrobe built into one of the walls, she uses this while I use clothing rails to hang my clothes (including my collection of Stone Island clobber) When we first viewed the property I noticed mould on one of the master bedroom walls (the separating wall to our next door neighbour). This we were assured would be professionally treated prior to us moving in. It wasn't, it was painted over!!! We discovered this shortly after our daughter was born... The mould reappeared and despite getting onto the letting agency we were ignored. We were even forced to put our daughter at risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) by moving her into another room to sleep at 3 months old, to protect her from the mould spores. There was also another mould patch on another wall. We contacted the letting agents who visited the property. The conclusion was that because we had the original wooden guttering it it was rotten and causing water to run down the external wall causing mould to form internally (the effected area was about 5ft in length). The wallpaper was removed and the wall was treated by 'professionals' and left bare for 3-4 weeks before being re-wallpapered. 2 weeks after we moved in the landlord arranged for workmen to come round and gut the cellar as it had a major damp issue. Then a few months later, after the summer my partner noticed mould on a number of pairs of her (leather) shoes stored in the built in attic wardrobe, this she found was spreading to her clothes too. A short while later I noticed that my clothes were riddled with mould too and a horrifically bad mouldy/earthy smell filled the room. What struck me as odd was there was no mould on the walls/roof etc, just clothing What is causing mould to form on clothing but not walls? I know for mould to form in leather there has to be 70-80% moisture in the atmosphere but as the damp specialist was sent by the landlord/letting agent and he's not concluded that there's an issue with the property they aren't willing to get the mouldy clothes dry cleaned. The damaged clothing cost £11,000 and they seem to think I've purposely put mould on them to get them dry cleaned!! Also the mould on the master bedroom walls which was professionally treated... That's back now too!! Any help would be much appreciated.